[Healing the planet]: U.S. to Abstain on South African Coal Plant - NYTimes.com

...several sources say the United States plans to abstain, which will allow the Obama administration to put its objections on the record while still allowing the project to move forward.

AMERICAN BUSINESSES FOR CLEAN ENERGY

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 7, 2010) – A group of 3,000 national and grassroots companies are taking part today in a new national advertising campaign calling for swift action on energy and climate legislation. These businesses, including the groups American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE) and the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), range from national brands -- like Google, Nike and Timberland -- to mom-and-pop companies.

Hacked climate science emails: were requests for information vexatious | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Since I began writing about this issue, I've been assailed by climate scientists and environmentalists, all insisting that Jones did nothing wrong. If these emails meet their standards of professional rectitude I dread to think what else they would find acceptable.

You could argue, as many have, that Jones was responding to a campaign of harassment by climate change deniers. It's true that he was being badgered, and that some of those doing the badgering seemed to be motivated by something other than the unsullied spirit of scientific inquiry. But there was a simple means of getting the hasslers off his back: release the sodding data.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Peer Review and Proof

...it is a logical fallacy to claim, “Because this result was not peer reviewed and published in an academic journal, it is false.”